December 29, 2014

My art plays in my life as a therapy of sorts. It has been such a
journey with this piece, discovering paradox, the light of me and the dark
shadow. The indwelling of pen and ink, brush and paint across the surface of
the paper bringing awareness to this aspect of the deep within that seeks
revelation, so that it’s meaning is never the same at it’s conception, as at it’s
birth.

December 20, 2014

"Forged in Earth and Water, birthed in Air and Fire,
purified and cleansed with sage and imbued with deer medicine drum, may this
Terraphim bring a little peace of the power and love, insight and courage,
tenderness and awakening of the fierce, loving heart of the Mother Earth into
your life! May she remind us of the immense wisdom that dwells within the body,
connecting us to Spirit and the holy Mother who dwells both beneath and within
us. With labyrinthine womb, she journeys ever in, to the still centre, there to
rest and commune, circling ever out again to offer Her gifts to the world. She
listens deeply to the cycles of the moon and womb, within and without, as her
blood spills forth to the fertile Earth, her heart a sacred bloom. Blessings on the Blood!"

"Beloved Kin, dear ones with eyes that would see and hearts wide enough to forgive the short-comings, I ask that you bear witness to this trepidatious birthing of a part of myself into the world. I offer this because I feel it asked of me in the wee hours of my dark nights, because it is what I am most afraid of and because it is what I want most for myself; to give of that which moves within. The place in which I find myself at the commencement of this endeavour , and what I feel moved to share from that place, feels deeply raw and vulnerable, but beneath the fear of revealing my underbelly is a gentle beckoning to share with the world that which I truly feel myself to be, both that which shines boldly and sings of truth and radiant becoming, and that which dwells yet in the shadow places within, a whisper to unveil the unformed and the as yet unlived, the deep and the dark of me. It is my prayer that something of the truth of this might touch something in the truth of you, so that I might know myself more deeply and so that a shared becoming may come to flower in the space between us, in the space between the within and the beyond. I give my heartfull thanks for your reflection and beholding"